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Metatron is invoked in a love ritual by the witch Geli Tripping in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). [72] Metatron appears as an angel and the spokesperson of God in the novel Good Omens (1990) and its 2019 TV adaptation. Metatron is played in the series by Derek Jacobi. [73] [74]
El Shaddai is conventionally translated into English as God Almighty. (Deus Omnipotens in Latin, Arabic: إله الشديد, romanized: ʾIlāh Ash-Shadīd) El means "God" in the Ugaritic and the Canaanite languages. The literal meaning of Shaddai, however, is the subject of debate. [1]
The same verse describes the Devil as "a man-killer from the beginning" [80] and "a liar and the father of lying." [80] [81] John 13:2 describes the Devil as inspiring Judas to betray Jesus [82] and John 12:31–32 identifies Satan as "the Archon of this Cosmos", who is destined to be overthrown through Jesus's death and resurrection. [83]
The word is identical to elohim meaning gods and is cognate to the 'lhm found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El and conventionally vocalized as "Elohim" although the original Ugaritic vowels are unknown. When the Hebrew Bible uses elohim not in reference to God, it is plural (for example ...
Overall: GA finalised on the day it was submitted, so AOK there, and far more than long enough, a very comprehensive work-up on the topic. Lots of referencing, fine citation in general, as you'd expect from a piece that made it through GA review in quick time - BUT the two paragraphs, added in response to a GA review point, of Synopsis, are uncited - I'm sure this can be quickly fixed.
El (/ ɛ l / EL; also ' Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; [6] Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil or إله ʾilāh [clarification needed]; cognate to Akkadian: 𒀭, romanized: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.
Detail of Pride from The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500. Pride, also known as hubris (from Ancient Greek ὕβρις) or futility, is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins on almost every list, the most demonic. [38] It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins.
The sheyd Ashmodai (אַשְמְדּאָי) in birdlike form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 Child sacrifice to the sheyd Molekh (מֹלֶךְ), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity Moloch of the Old Testament in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)